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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.

Sherwood Anderson

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Sherwood Anderson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1876
Born: September 13
Died: 1941
Died: March 8
Novelist
Writer
Buck Fever
Write
Ten
Stories
Mines
Writing
Mine
Long
Short
Years
Single
Rewrite
Written
Crafts
Taken
Twelve
Story
Seldom

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Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.
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You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.
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Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.
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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 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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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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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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My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly a house-and-barn painter. However, he did not call himself a house-painter. The idea was not flashy enough for him. He called himself a sign-writer.
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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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