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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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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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Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.
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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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Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.
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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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Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.
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The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.
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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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The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
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The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.
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You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.
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