You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not… — 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… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection,… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life… — 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
If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast. — 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
Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not. — 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
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
