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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.
— Ernest Gaines
Tags: grow, sometimes, hurt, you

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I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
— Ernest Gaines
Tags: i-believe, tell, story, believe
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
— Ernest Gaines
Tags: things, society, man, eyes
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
— Ernest Gaines
Tags: every, star, question, everything
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
— Ernest Gaines
Tags: must, try, you, good
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.
— Ernest Gaines
Tags: must, yesterday, better, today
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