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People Quotes by Ernest Gaines
- "What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel guilty, just as…
- I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
- I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or…
- Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.
- We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how…
- 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…
- 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…
- How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle