"He told us that most of us would……" — Ernest Gaines
"He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts."
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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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But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there…
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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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More Beast Quotes
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one of 880 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Aristotle
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
— Diane Ackerman
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
— Aeschylus
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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
— Cate Blanchett
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not…
— Daniel Boone
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and…
— Robert Browning
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes…
— A. S. Byatt
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws…
— A. S. Byatt
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
— Albert Camus
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