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The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

Sherwood Anderson

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Sherwood Anderson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1876
Born: September 13
Died: 1941
Died: March 8
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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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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.
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Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.
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There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.
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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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Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.
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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.
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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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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.
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As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod.
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There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.
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Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.
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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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Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.
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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 whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
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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 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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