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1. "Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved." ~ Sherwood Anderson

2. "The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things." ~ Sherwood Anderson

3. "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")" ~ Sherwood Anderson

4. "No se deje embaucar por la palabrería [...] Tiene que ser usted algo más que un simple buhonero de vocablos". ("La maestra")" ~ Sherwood Anderson

5. "It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect" ~ Sherwood Anderson

6. "It is this - that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That's what I want to say. Don't you forget that. Whatever happens, don't you dare let yourself forget." ~ Sherwood Anderson

7. "People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast." ~ Sherwood Anderson

8. "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." ~ Sherwood Anderson

9. "In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. 'I have come to this lonely place and here is this other,' was the substance of the thing felt." ~ Sherwood Anderson

10. "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." ~ Sherwood Anderson

11. "The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees." ~ Sherwood Anderson

12. "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." ~ Sherwood Anderson

13. "There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped." ~ Sherwood Anderson

14. "It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face." ~ Sherwood Anderson

15. "From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy." ~ Sherwood Anderson

16. "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." ~ Sherwood Anderson

17. "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

18. "As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod." ~ Sherwood Anderson

19. "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." ~ Sherwood Anderson

20. "From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room. I am vividly aware of my own life that escaped the winter on the boat. How many such lives I have lived. Then I only made a dollar and a half a day and now I sometimes make more than that in a few minutes. How wonderful to be able to write words. ... Again I begin the endless game of reconstructing my own life, jerking it out of the shell that dies, striving to breathe into it beauty and meaning. ... I wonder why my life, why all lives, are not more beautiful." ~ Sherwood Anderson

21. "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

22. "...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them." ~ Sherwood Anderson

23. "Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had held her when adventure was a possible thing for her. Particularly she remembered one who had for a time been her lover and who in the moment of his passion had cried out to her more than a hundred times, saying the same words madly over and over: "You dear! You dear! You lovely dear!" The words, she thought, expressed something she would have liked to have achieved in life." ~ Sherwood Anderson

24. "You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small,' I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. 'Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.' I got all of these sayings at my tongue's end, used to go through the streets of Chicago muttering them to myself." ~ Sherwood Anderson

25. "All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean." ~ Sherwood Anderson

26. "One conceals oneself standing silently beside the trunk of a tree and what there is of a reflective tendency in his nature is intensified. One shudders at the thought of the meaninglessness of life while at the same instant, and if the people of the town are his people, one loves life so intensely that tears come into the eyes." ~ Sherwood Anderson

27. "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

28. "That 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." ~ Sherwood Anderson

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