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
“It did not seem to them that anything that could happen in the future could blot out the wonder and beauty of… — 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
The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. — 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
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
Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and… — 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
“It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared. Now it's time to be living.… — 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
“There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life.… — 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
