"The only thing poverty does is grind down……" — Rick Bragg
"The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people are willing to. It chips away a person's dreams to the point that the hopelessness shows through, and the dreamer accepts that hard work and borrowed houses are all this life will ever be."
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25 Quotes by Rick Bragg
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It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.
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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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The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.
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