"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”
“You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of a completed design, that somebody is in charge, and that while life is pointless, the book isn't pointless. The author knows where he is going. That's form.”
“You've got to give more than you take.”
“I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.”
“Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage war again, the colored will act differently and become rulers of the world.”
“But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.”
“As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.”
“Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they dont talk about anything else.”

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