"And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better."

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Source : Ernest J. Gaines (2015). “A Lesson Before Dying”, p.191, Serpent's Tail

Ernest Gaines

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