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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.

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 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 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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The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
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It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.
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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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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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Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.
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Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two.
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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 whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
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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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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 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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Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.
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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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Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.
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I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.
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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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