"Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday."

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Source : "Author Ernest Gaines comes home to where his ancestors were enslaved" by Wayne Drash, www.cnn.com. November 9, 2010.

Ernest Gaines

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“In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.”
“I look one move ahead... the best!”
“I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I'm like, 'C'mon, Tiger!'”
“Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.”
“Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.”
“God made the water but men made the wine.”
“That last rep where you're trying as hard as you can and you barely make it! That is what turns on the growth mechanism in your body. That last almost impossible rep where you're bearing your teeth, you're shaking all over, you need assistance! That rep is very special, that rep is very different. There's something special going on inside your body when that happens.”
“My golf is woeful, but I will never surrender”

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