"But let us say he was (guilty). Let……" — Ernest Gaines
"But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this."
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52 Quotes by Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines has 52 quotes on this site.
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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
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I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What…
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Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect.…
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"What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me…
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"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."
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We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to…
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Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in…
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You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn…
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The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I…
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We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?
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I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's…
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I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about…
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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
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I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions,…
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When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and…
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I am a very lazy man, so, for me, the dream is to be at home on the chair with…
— Andrea Bocelli
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own…
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I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair.…
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When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
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I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens…
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In movies, you have a production assistant carrying your chair around and getting you coffee. In theater, no one carries…
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo…
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