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Sherwood Anderson Quotes: What's wrong with this egotism? 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?
         

What's wrong with this egotism? 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?


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



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



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.

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.



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

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



There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.



I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.



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

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



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.

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.



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

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



The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.





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More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself.



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