Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
Ernest Gaines
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- What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.
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