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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
Writer
Buck Fever
Sorts
Lead
Words
Writing
Absurdities
Absurdity

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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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