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Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.
— Sherwood Anderson
It did not seem to them that anything that could happen in the future could blot out the wonder and beauty of the thing that had happened.
— Sherwood Anderson
Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.
— Sherwood Anderson
Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.
— Sherwood Anderson
The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed.
— Sherwood Anderson
The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self ...
— Sherwood Anderson
If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.
— Sherwood Anderson
I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.
— Sherwood Anderson
To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship.
— Sherwood Anderson
It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.
— Sherwood Anderson
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.
— Sherwood Anderson
Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.
— Sherwood Anderson
Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.
— Sherwood Anderson
If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.
— Sherwood Anderson
Friends you have, people you love, die and are born again.
— Sherwood Anderson
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.
— Sherwood Anderson
I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it.
— Sherwood Anderson
If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.
— Sherwood Anderson
She thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.
— Sherwood Anderson
Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art.
— Sherwood Anderson
All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.
— Sherwood Anderson
There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.
— Sherwood Anderson
If England was the mother of the Big Boy, America, she was, I fear, a woman of questionable virtue. No one knows for certain who the father was.
— Sherwood Anderson
I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men ... It blew ideas away.
— Sherwood Anderson
I'll be washed and ironed. I'll be washed and ironed and starched.
— Sherwood Anderson
Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.
— Sherwood Anderson
I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too. Don't you see, dear, how it was?
— Sherwood Anderson
The whole object of education is ... to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
— Sherwood Anderson
You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.
— Sherwood Anderson
Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.
— Sherwood Anderson
Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.
— Sherwood Anderson
It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.
— Sherwood Anderson
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
— Sherwood Anderson
The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.
— Sherwood Anderson
It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.
— Sherwood Anderson
There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.
— Sherwood Anderson
To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.
— Sherwood Anderson
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.
— Sherwood Anderson
It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.
— Sherwood Anderson
I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.
— Sherwood Anderson
Those of my critics who declare I have no feeling for form will be filled with delight over the meandering formlessness of these notes.
— Sherwood Anderson
He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.
— Sherwood Anderson
The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.
— Sherwood Anderson
I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.
— Sherwood Anderson
The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.
— Sherwood Anderson
The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
— Sherwood Anderson
People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.
— Sherwood Anderson
Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.
— Sherwood Anderson
I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.
— Sherwood Anderson
There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.
— Sherwood Anderson
In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers
— Sherwood Anderson
I thought of a lot of things to do, but they wouldn't work. They all hurt some one else.
— Sherwood Anderson
A man needs a purpose for real health.
— Sherwood Anderson
When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.
— Sherwood Anderson
It hadn't shocked the old woman, not much. She had got past being shocked early in life.
— Sherwood Anderson
Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.
— Sherwood Anderson
She was very quiet but beneath a placid exterior a continual ferment went on.
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I had come out of a messy workplace along a messy street to a messy room and did not like it and within me was the beer that made me bold.
— Sherwood Anderson
Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.
— Sherwood Anderson