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Rick Bragg has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your…
• The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower…
• The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of…
• It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.
• When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game…
• I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me,…
• I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.
• Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people…
• And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like…
• I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
• Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
• People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

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