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The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
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 won’t arrive. It is an endless search.
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I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.
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Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.
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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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I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.
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The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.
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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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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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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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The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
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Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.
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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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Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.
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