Sherwood Anderson

You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not…

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“Doctor Parcival began to plead with George Willard. 'You must pay attention to me,' he urged. 'If something happens you will be…

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It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.

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What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and…

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“You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and…

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“It might be that women who have been nurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taught…

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There is a note that comes into the human voice by which you may know real weariness. It comes when one has…

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All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They…

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It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have…

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“He was almost a poet in his old age and his notion of what happened took a poetic turn. 'I had come…

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“It did not seem to them that anything that could happen in the future could blot out the wonder and beauty of…

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The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There…

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“Helen ran down a flight of stairs at the back of the house and into the garden. In the darkness she stopped…

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In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we…

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In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind…

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I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have…

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“...at bottom he did not believe the people wanted reform; they wanted a ten percent raise in wages. The public mind was…

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Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a…

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“It is this - that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That's what I want to say.…

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It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything…

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Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having…

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My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he…

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“More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?”

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“The story of Doctor Reefy and his courtship of the tall dark girl who became his wife and left her money to…

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I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures…

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