Sherwood Anderson Quotes
Top 59 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.
The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self ...
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.
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.
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.
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.
She thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.
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.
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.
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.
I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men ... It blew ideas away.
I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too. Don't you see, dear, how it was?
It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.
There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.
To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.
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.
It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.
Those of my critics who declare I have no feeling for form will be filled with delight over the meandering formlessness of these notes.
I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.
Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.
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.
There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.
In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers
Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.
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.