“ Questions invaded my mind and I was young and skeptical, wanting to believe in the power of the mind, wanting to believe in the power of intellectual force, terribly afraid of sentimentality in myself… Sherwood Anderson
“ I may stay here in this town another day or I may go on to another town. No one knows where I am. I am taking this bath in life, as you see, and when I have had enough of it I shall go home feeling re… Sherwood Anderson
“ I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think. Sherwood Anderson
“ He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold by the hour, servants, you see, to his fancy. Among these people he was alwa… Sherwood Anderson
“ Here and there a man respected the operator. Instinctively the man felt in him a glowing resentment of something he had not the courage to resent. Sherwood Anderson
“ To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship. Sherwood Anderson
“ 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. The boy is walking through the st… Sherwood Anderson
“ Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure abou… Sherwood Anderson
“ I looked at mother with adoration in my own eyes, and when she had taken the kerosene lamp and had gone away, and when we boys were all again curled quietly like sleeping puppies in the bed, I cried a… Sherwood Anderson
“ There was nothing particularly striking about them except that they were artists of the kind that talk. Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they hav… Sherwood Anderson
“ The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of wa… Sherwood Anderson
“ She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender look in her eyes? Is she dreaming of me as she walks along the streets? Sherwood Anderson
“ The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things. Sherwood Anderson
“ If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant that we ran rathe… Sherwood Anderson
“ The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon. He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pockets with the scraps of paper that became hard bal… Sherwood Anderson
“ Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Sherwood Anderson
“ In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this… Sherwood Anderson
“ Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our way. When it comes out darts the tongue. We nab it.That is all. We eat it. Sherwood Anderson
