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The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
Sherwood Anderson
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Sherwood Anderson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1876
Born: September 13
Died: 1941
Died: March 8
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In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers
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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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Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.
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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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Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.
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The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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