"When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs."

-- Ernest Gaines

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“To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.”
“Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.”
“Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.”

Source : "Q&A: The Beautiful Nikki DeLoach of 'Awkward'". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2013.
“To create a new business that makes money, and more significantly, employs others, and more significantly, gives a product to a customer that improves their life, is our greatest challenge, our greatest opportunity, and the greatest gift, far greater than any charity that we can give our fellow person.”
“Sometimes I think change is a good thing.”
“I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend.”
“Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the exact balance that is maintained, between the numbers of men and women; for by this means is provided, that the species never may fail, nor perish, since every male may have its female, and of proportionable age. This equality of males and females is not the effect of chance but divine providence, working for a good end.”
“I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.”

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