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Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

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Sherwood Anderson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1876
Born: September 13
Died: 1941
Died: March 8
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Buck Fever
Twisted
Sweetness
Apples

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Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.
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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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Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.
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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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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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The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.
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I am pregnant with song. My body aches but do not betray me. I will sing songs and hide them away. I will tear them into bits and throw them in the street. The streets of my city are full of dark holes. I will hide my songs in the holes of the streets.
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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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Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.
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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 for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people.
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