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Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

~Ernest Gaines

Topics: Else Got Grow Help Hurt One Thing Order Plow Something Something Else Sometimes Thing You

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

~Ernest Gaines

Topics: Better Did Must Page Paragraph Than Today Write Yesterday

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

~Ernest Gaines

Topics: About Home Say Something Wanted Writer

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I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

~Ernest Gaines

Topics: About Feel Had See Thing Wanted Write

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When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

~Ernest Gaines

Topics: Alone Church Hear Hum Old Old People People Praying Singing Sitting Sometimes Songs I Can

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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

Topics: Anymore Anything Anything Else Being Church Else Go Great Love Miss More More Than Anything Much Old Old-Time Praying Religion Singing Strength Than Today Which Writing I Love

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I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.

~Ernest Gaines

Topics: Afraid Family Had Knew Neglect Something Wanted Wife Would Writer Writing

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I write with as much objectivity as I can.

~Ernest Gaines

Topics: Much Objectivity Write I Can I Write

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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

Topics: Am Figure Find Main Manliness Out Really Themes Think Try Trying Who Write I Think I Am I Write

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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

Topics: Because Condition Exist Eyes He His Just Less Lower Man May Society Such Things Things

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 15th, 1933

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