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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

~Ernest Gaines

Topics: Comfortable Culture Guns Hands Holding Holding Hands Men More Seeing Than Two Why

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All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

~Ernest Gaines

Topics: About Alive All Writers Come Happened Make Past See Try Write Writers You

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A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

~Ernest Gaines

Topics: Anyone Anyone Else Believe Better Earth Else Lie Myth Old People Than White

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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

Topics: Believe Characters Creating Plot Should Story Suspense Tell Writer I Believe I Believe That I Believe In

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Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

~Ernest Gaines

Topics: Every Everything Question Spoken Star Stripe Word

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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

~Ernest Gaines

Topics: Action Doing Mean Nothing Only The Only Thing Thing Words

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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

Topics: Any Believe Does God Know Man Much Only Person Religious Religious Person Think Very I Think I Believe I Believe In

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In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

~Ernest Gaines

Topics: About Beginning Boy Came Cosmopolitan Country Country Boy Deal Had In The Beginning Knew More Realized Things Tried Where Writer I Tried I Came

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The mark of fear is not easily removed.

~Ernest Gaines

Topics: Easily Fear Mark

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There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

~Ernest Gaines

Topics: Always Change Controlled Men Past Struggling Those Who Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 15th, 1933

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