"I like the sound of people's voices, and……" — Ernest Gaines
"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 not."
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Ernest Gaines
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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 Lying Quotes
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that…
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
— Hannah Arendt
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth…
— Pietro Aretino
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies…
— David Arquette
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions…
— Mary Astell
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
— Marcus Aurelius
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