"But I hope I will never have a……" — Rick Bragg
"But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside."
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25 Quotes by Rick Bragg
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It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide…
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The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and…
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The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the…
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It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.
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When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the…
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I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing…
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I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the…
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Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad,…
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And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and…
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I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
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Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
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People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
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More Antiquated Quotes
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It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is…
— Bruce Beresford
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Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public…
— Eli Broad
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There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily…
— Karlheinz Deschner
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course…
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick…
— Charles Francis Richter
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The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with…
— Unknown Author
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Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and…
— Robert T. Bakker
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You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And…
— Bill Gates
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The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have…
— Teresa Wright
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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
— Ivan Turgenev
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Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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