Rick Bragg - All over but the shoutin' (1991)

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Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bottle on the side of the road and thinking, "Boy, I wish I had a Coke." The loves you miss are the ones that go away when they are still warm, even hot, to the touch.

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It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

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Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

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

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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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You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.

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I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

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