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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.
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 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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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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The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.
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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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I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.
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Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.
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The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.
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If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.
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The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
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Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.
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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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The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.
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It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.
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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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I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot tell what I want. My feet are sunk in the black swampy land, but I am a lover. I love life. In the end love shall save me.
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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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Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.
Sherwood Anderson
The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
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The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.
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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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