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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."

-- Rick Bragg

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“It's easier for me to accept that I can't play anymore because I literally gave it all I got. That allows me to be a little bit more at peace.”

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“The United States should get rid of its militias.”
“A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jesse Buford". "A Big Hand for the Little Lady", www.imdb.com. 1966.
“Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.”
“Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means.”
“The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.”
“Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm a big rock climber. I head out into the mountains whenever I have free time. It's amazing.”
“Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high.”

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