"The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia"
"...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself."
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Source: Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.278, Random House
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