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• There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

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  Boys, Views, Lines

  Sherwood Anderson (1995). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.

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  World, Christ

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.42, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

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  Writing, Ifs

  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.155, Library of America

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• I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

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  Taken, Writing, Years

  Sherwood Anderson, Martha Mulroy Curry (1975). “The "Writer's book"”

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• Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.

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  Men, Talking, Advice

  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 a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.

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  Mean, Lovers, Realizing

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

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• If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.

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  Writing, Happened, Ifs

  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.987, Library of America

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• When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.

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  Stupid, Book, Writing

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• You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.

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  Thinking, People, Peddler

  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.155, Library of America

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• I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggles and her defeats. It is because of her defeats that she is to me the lovely one. Out of her defeats she has been born a new quality in woman. I have a name for it. I call it Tandy. I made up the name when I was a true dreamer and before my body became vile. It is the quality of being strong to be loved. It is something men need from women and that they do not get.

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  Strong, Struggle, Men

  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.137, Library of America

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• Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.

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  Disappointment, Kissing, Night

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.181, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

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  Use, Faces, Impossible

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• It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.

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  Father, Son, Men

  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 a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it.

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  Money, Men, Order

  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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• Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the artist is almost sure to end up by becoming a bellyacher, constantly complaining because the public does not rush forward at once to proclaim him.

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  Art, Should Have, Class

  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.5, University of Michigan Press

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• The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears death calling. With all his heart he wants to come close to some other human, touch someone with his hands, be touched by the hand of another.

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  Heart, Breathing Space, Hands

  Sherwood Anderson (1995). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.

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  New York, Thinking, Long

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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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• In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

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  Men, People, World

  "Winesburg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson, ("The Book of the Grotesque"), 1919.

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• People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

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  People, Facts, Discouraging

  Sherwood Anderson (2013). “The Egg and Other Stories”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.

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  Giving, Satisfaction

  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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• You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.

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  Work, America, Killing

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• The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.

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  Mother, Children, Father

  Sherwood Anderson (1995). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough.

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  Acceptance, Thinking, Self

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

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• It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.

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  People, Needs, Need You

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