It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small," I told myself. I had to keep… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
There is a note that comes into the human voice by which you may know real weariness. It comes when one has… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Doctor Parcival began to plead with George Willard. 'You must pay attention to me,' he urged. 'If something happens you will be able to… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and sister sat… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“It might be that women who have been nurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taught to have… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
There is a note that comes into the human voice by which you may know real weariness. It comes when one has been trying… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“He was almost a poet in his old age and his notion of what happened took a poetic turn. 'I had come to the… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“It did not seem to them that anything that could happen in the future could blot out the wonder and beauty of the thing… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
