It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you. Sherwood Anderson More Quotes by Sherwood Anderson More Quotes From Sherwood Anderson You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say. Sherwood Anderson peddler people thinking The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears death calling. With all his heart he wants to come close to some other human, touch someone with his hands, be touched by the hand of another. Sherwood Anderson breathing-space heart hands Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about. Sherwood Anderson advice talking men Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two. Sherwood Anderson phones pride two Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting. Sherwood Anderson waiting people When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism. Sherwood Anderson stupid writing book The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things. Sherwood Anderson machines sweet men I am pregnant with song. My body aches but do not betray me. I will sing songs and hide them away. I will tear them into bits and throw them in the street. The streets of my city are full of dark holes. I will hide my songs in the holes of the streets. Sherwood Anderson cities dark song It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life. Sherwood Anderson men father son 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. Sherwood Anderson strong brave men In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers Sherwood Anderson fighting struggle animal On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples. Sherwood Anderson doctors running hands 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. Sherwood Anderson realizing lovers mean In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song. Sherwood Anderson maturity song memories 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 about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses. Sherwood Anderson kissing disappointment night I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. Sherwood Anderson lovers found love There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it. Sherwood Anderson money men order I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggles and her defeats. It is because of her defeats that she is to me the lovely one. Out of her defeats she has been born a new quality in woman. I have a name for it. I call it Tandy. I made up the name when I was a true dreamer and before my body became vile. It is the quality of being strong to be loved. It is something men need from women and that they do not get. Sherwood Anderson strong struggle men The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities. Sherwood Anderson absurdity writing Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the artist is almost sure to end up by becoming a bellyacher, constantly complaining because the public does not rush forward at once to proclaim him. Sherwood Anderson should-have class art
