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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
Novelist
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Buck Fever
Twisted
Sweetness
Apples

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The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
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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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