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The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

Sherwood Anderson

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Sherwood Anderson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1876
Born: September 13
Died: 1941
Died: March 8
Novelist
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Buck Fever
Absurdity
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Lead
Words
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Absurdities

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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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I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.
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The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
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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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