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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.
Sherwood Anderson
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Sherwood Anderson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1876
Born: September 13
Died: 1941
Died: March 8
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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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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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Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.
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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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I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.
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