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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.
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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Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.
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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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Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.
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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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