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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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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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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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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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Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?
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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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The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
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Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.
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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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It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.
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Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.
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Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.
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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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Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.
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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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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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The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
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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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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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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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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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