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Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.
Sherwood Anderson
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Sherwood Anderson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1876
Born: September 13
Died: 1941
Died: March 8
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All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.
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I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
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If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.
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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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Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.
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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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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 moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.
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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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