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Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a writer.

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The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.

Falsehood, Grotesque, Live, Moments, People

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.

Acceptance, Hungering, Loneliest, Self, Strongest, Thinking

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.

Boys, Crosses, Lines, Manhood, Moment, Views

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.

Rewrite, Taken, Write, Writing, Years

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.

Cities, Dark, Sing, Song, Throw

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

Advice, Know, Men, Taking, Talking

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.

Children, Dark, Mean, Nice, Sleeping

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

Machines, Men, Old, Sweet, Things

Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.

Drawing, Drawings, Humble, Hundreds, Trying

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

Against, Day, Distant, Fields, Sun, Tree

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

Bed, Book, Difficulty, Men, Moustache, White

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.

Corn, Forgotten, Long, People, Wind

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

Faces, Impossible, Security, Staring, Use

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.

Peddler, People, Thinking, Words

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

Alive, Courses, Make, People, Stupor

Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately,almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does.

Art, Artists, Everyone, Known, Talking, Thinking

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

Arrive, Endless, Search, Wont

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.

Afraid, Dead, Happens, Long, New York, Thinking

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

Courageous, Road, Strong, Venture

Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs.

Delacroixs, Feet, Latest, Masters, Modern, Rembrandts

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