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All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.
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 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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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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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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Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.
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Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the artist is almost sure to end up by becoming a bellyacher, constantly complaining because the public does not rush forward at once to proclaim him.
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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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The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
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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 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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Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.
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Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.
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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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Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.
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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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It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.
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