“ It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. Sherwood Anderson
“ 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
“ What is to be got at to make the air sweet the ground good under the feet can only be got at by failure trial again and again and again failure. Sherwood Anderson
“ 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? Sherwood Anderson
“ Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself the value he attributes to his own being? Sherwood Anderson
“ Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present. Sherwood Anderson
“ General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life ... "I am terribly afraid but the other fellow is afraid too." Sherwood Anderson
“ To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life. Sherwood Anderson
“ You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and sister sat listening, I did not think he got the point. He was too young and so was I. A thing… Sherwood Anderson
“ 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
“ I wanted, as all men do, to belong. To what? To an America alive, an America that was no longer a despised cultural foster child of Europe, with unpleasant questions always being asked about its paren… Sherwood Anderson
“ All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men die in silence and unnoticed behind the walls. Now and then a man, cut off from his fellows by the pe… Sherwood Anderson
“ One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the whole so much more first class than the average man. Sherwood Anderson
“ We poor tellers of tales have our moments too, it seems. Like great generals sitting upon horses upon the tops of hills and throwing troops into the arena, we throw the little soldier words into our b… Sherwood Anderson
“ Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives. Sherwood Anderson
“ But these notes make no pretense of being a record of fact. That isn't their object. They are merely notes of impressions, a record of vagrant thoughts, hopes, ideas that have floated through the mind… Sherwood Anderson
“ The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought without patriotism, when men would forget God and only pay attention to moral standards, when the wil… Sherwood Anderson
“ Dreams then were to be expressed in building railroads and factories, in boring gas wells, stringing telegraph poles. There was room for no other dream and since father could not do any of these thing… Sherwood Anderson
“ The death of her father and mother and the rich acres of and that had come down to her had set a train of suitors on her heels. For two years she saw suitors almost every evening. Except two they were… Sherwood Anderson
“ I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it. Sherwood Anderson
