Bragg

"Any jackass can be pleasant company, but if people help you when you're at your worst, that's a friend."


July 8, 2007

Bragg

"It is a failing of pampered intellectuals that they assume everyone at their table is as civilized as they are."


July 8, 2007

Bragg

"There is a notion, a badly mistaken one among comfortable people, that you do not miss what you never had. I have written that line myself, which is shameful to me now. I, of all people, should know better, should know that being poor does not make you blind to the riches around you; that living in other folks' houses for a lifetime does not mean a person does not dream of a house of his or her own, even if it is just a little one."


July 5, 2007

Bragg

"After all the dying I have seen, I finally understand what death is: simple wanting."


July 5, 2007