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Sherwood Anderson Inspirational Quotes (45)

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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.
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Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.
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You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.
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It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.
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Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.
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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.
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Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.
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The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
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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.
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Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.
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Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.
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The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
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I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.
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You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.
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Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.
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The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.
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The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
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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.
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The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.
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Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?
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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 is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.
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