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I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#figure #find #i #i am #i think

The mark of fear is not easily removed. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#anything #being #church #else #go

We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyke is of the company. ↗

— Thomas Gainsborough

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Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

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