Sherwood Anderson Quotes

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• The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

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  Art, Art Is, Save Yourself

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

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  Life, Men, Climbing

  Sherwood Anderson (2013). “The Egg and Other Stories”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

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  Strong, Venture, Courageous

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.116, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

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  Endless

  Sherwood Anderson (1949). “The Portable Sherwood Anderson”

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• 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.

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  Life, Wish, Driven

  Sherwood Anderson (1969). “Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition”

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• I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.

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  Running, Running Away, Wanted

  Sherwood Anderson (2012). “Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)”, p.220, Library of America

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• The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

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  People, Alive, Courses

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

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  People, Waiting

  Sherwood Anderson (2012). “Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)”, p.835, Library of America

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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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  Lying, Writing, Thinking

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

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  Life, May, Moments

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• You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

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  Dream, Men, Voice

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.20, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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  Strong, Men, Brave

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.116, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.

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  People, Married, Breasts

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• A man needs a purpose for real health.

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  Real, Men, Needs

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

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  Thinking, Iron, Heavy

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• The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.

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  Song, Art, Determination

  Sherwood Anderson (1947). “The Sherwood Anderson reader”

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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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  Education, Mind, Should

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• I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

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  Love, Lovers, Found

  Sherwood Anderson (2012). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

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  Artist, People, Imagination

  Sherwood Anderson (1947). “The Sherwood Anderson reader”

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• When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.

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  Jobs, Use, Done

  Sherwood Anderson (2016). “Poor White”, p.9, Sherwood Anderson

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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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  Mean, Past, Want

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

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  People, Would Be, Stories

  Sherwood Anderson (1924). “A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue”, p.332, University of Michigan Press

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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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  Horse, Envy, Sick

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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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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  Song, Dark, Cities

  Sherwood Anderson (2006). “Mid-American Chants”, p.1, Quale Press

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• The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.

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  Morning, Writing, Thinking

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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