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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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You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.
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Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.
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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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The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
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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.
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The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.
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The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.
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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 of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.
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Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.
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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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Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.
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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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Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.
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I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men....It blew ideas away.
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