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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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Sherwood Anderson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1876
Born: September 13
Died: 1941
Died: March 8
Novelist
Writer
Buck Fever
Failure
Sweet
Feet
Make
Trial
Good
Trials
Ground
Air

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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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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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Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.
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