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From Quotes by Sherwood Anderson
- I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial,…
- The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
- If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.
- The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise…
- From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room.…
- From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn…
- You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut…
- On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles…
- Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite.…
- I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggles and her defeats. It is because…
- As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his…
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