Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered … - Sherwood Anderson

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As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.

Sherwood Anderson

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.

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

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

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