"Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it."

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Source : Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.21, Vintage

Rick Bragg

#Inspirational Quotes #Shells Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I had this idea when I was in the hospital, .. It seems like every year I always have different people come and ask for a Christmas song and it seemed strangely appropriate for me this year because Christmas is the time that I am supposed to be sort of back and up and running and whatnot. So I just wrote a song about returning from this very interesting journey and kind of getting back to normal and getting back to work and my regular life.”
“As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.”

Source : "THE DEMOCRATS: THE KENNEDY FACTOR; 40 Years Later, Invoking Spirit of New Frontier" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. August 16, 2000.
“Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.”
“Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.”
“Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get surprised by an idea that I hadn't anticipated getting, which is a little bit like being in a laboratory.”
“America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.”
“I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.”
“To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.”

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