I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men…It blew ideas… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something… — 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
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
Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a… — 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… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggles and her defeats.… — 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
The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set… — 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
