Quotes by Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson

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

Advice

Men

Talking

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.

Long

People

Wind

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.

Men

People

Thinking

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.

Brave

Men

Strong

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

Drawing

Humble

Trying

Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.

Facts

Father

Romance

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.

Boys

Men

Sadness

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.

Beautiful

Summer

Writing

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Found

Love

Lovers

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.

Lovers

Mean

Realizing

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Advice

Air

America

Apples

Art

Beautiful

Book

Boys

Brave

Breasts

Care

Climbing

Determination

Discouraging

Disease

Done

Drawing

Driven

Endless

Facts

Father

Feet

Fighting

Found

Gun

Hands

Happened

Heart

Heavy

Humble

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Ifs

Iron

Jobs

Killing

Life

Long

Love

Lovers

Lying

Married

Mean

Men

Mind

Money

Morning

Need You

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Quotes by Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson

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

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.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.

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

Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

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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