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Sherwood Anderson

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

Sherwood Anderson

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

Sherwood Anderson

General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life … “I am terribly afraid but the other fellow is afraid too.”

success, happiness

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

If a man doesn’t delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is all life to become important to him?

self-confidence

Sherwood Anderson

Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself the value he attributes to his own being?

self, acceptance

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.

failures, mistakes

Sherwood Anderson

All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men die in silence and unnoticed behind the walls. Now and then a man, cut off from his fellows by the peculiarities of his nature, becomes absorbed in doing something that is personal, useful and beautiful. Word of his activities is carried over the walls.

human-nature, humanity, isolation, misunderstanding, silence, walls, work

Sherwood Anderson

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.

human, inspirational

Sherwood Anderson

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant that we ran rather than loitered. Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty.

poverty, the-arts

Sherwood Anderson

The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon. He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pockets with the scraps of paper that became hard balls and were thrown away. The habit had been formed as he sat in his buggy behind the jaded white horse and went slowly along country roads. On the papers were written thoughts, ends of thoughts, beginnings of thoughts.One by one the mind of Doctor Reefy had made the thoughts. Out of many of them he formed a truth that arose gigantic in his mind. The truth clouded the world. It became terrible and then faded away and the little thoughts began again.(“Paper Pills”)

thoughts, truth, truths

Sherwood Anderson

I don’t know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.