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Ernest Gaines Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.



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

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



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I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.



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.

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

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



Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.



Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.



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