Ernest Gaines Quotes
Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.
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Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely good news.
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America is the paradise of lawyers.
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Monetary policy causes booms and busts.
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Economic integration is the path to riches and peace.
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I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.
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The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.
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I'm not - I'm not going to define people by labels: who's a real Republican, who's not a real Republican.
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The number one thing small business needs is to get more customers. Spend more time serving existing customers and getting new ones. The challenge for small business is knowing where customers are and reaching them effectively.
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I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.
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One of the things that has plagued bitcoin is not bitcoin itself but the companies built on top of it.
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Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.
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In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
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No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.
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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.
