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Sherwood Anderson Quotes

If you are to become a writer you’ll have to stop fooling with words Picture Quote #1

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills Picture Quote #1

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds Picture Quote #1

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 open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy Picture Quote #1

I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot tell what I want. My feet are sunk in the black swampy land, but I am a lover. I love life. In the end love shall save me Picture Quote #1

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others Picture Quote #1

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I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift Picture Quote #1

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure Picture Quote #1

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present Picture Quote #1

It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life Picture Quote #1

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful Picture Quote #1

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. I am vividly aware of my own life that escaped the winter on the boat. How many such lives I have lived. Then I only made a dollar and a half a day and now I sometimes make more than that in a few minutes. How wonderful to be able to write words... Again I begin the endless game of reconstructing my own life, jerking it out of the shell that dies, striving to breathe into it beauty and meaning... I wonder why my life, why all lives, are not more beautiful Picture Quote #1

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It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face Picture Quote #1

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect Picture Quote #1

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them Picture Quote #1

The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears death calling. With all his heart he wants to come close to some other human, touch someone with his hands, be touched by the hand of another Picture Quote #1

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being? Picture Quote #1

It is all right you’re saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you Picture Quote #1

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The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men Picture Quote #1

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written Picture Quote #1

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he’ll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism Picture Quote #1

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood Picture Quote #1

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor Picture Quote #1

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 fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod Picture Quote #1

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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 had. I am rich with living Picture Quote #1

If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened Picture Quote #1

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that Picture Quote #1

There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it Picture Quote #1

There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves Picture Quote #1

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things Picture Quote #1

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If you are to become a writer you’ll have to stop fooling with words (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) 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 open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot tell what I want. My feet are sunk in the black swampy land, but I am a lover. I love life. In the end love shall save me (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) 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. I am vividly aware of my own life that escaped the winter on the boat. How many such lives I have lived. Then I only made a dollar and a half a day and now I sometimes make more than that in a few minutes. How wonderful to be able to write words... Again I begin the endless game of reconstructing my own life, jerking it out of the shell that dies, striving to breathe into it beauty and meaning... I wonder why my life, why all lives, are not more beautiful (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears death calling. With all his heart he wants to come close to some other human, touch someone with his hands, be touched by the hand of another (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being? (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) 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 Quotes) The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he’ll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) 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 fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves (Sherwood Anderson Quotes) The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things (Sherwood Anderson Quotes)

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