The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things. Sherwood Anderson More Quotes by Sherwood Anderson More Quotes From Sherwood Anderson Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs. Sherwood Anderson modernmastersfeet I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot tell what I want. My feet are sunk in the black swampy land, but I am a lover. I love life. In the end love shall save me. Sherwood Anderson love-lifelanddirty The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood. Sherwood Anderson grotesquemomentspeople I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift. Sherwood Anderson writingmenknowledge Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of your hands. Then you can think of the thing before you. Sherwood Anderson drawinghandsthinking 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 airfeetsweet The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives. Sherwood Anderson motherfatherchildren You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small," I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. "Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life. Sherwood Anderson applesguntrying People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging. Sherwood Anderson discouragingfactspeople I'll do something, get into some kind of work where talk don't count. Maybe I'll just be a mechanic in a shop. I don't know. I guess I don't care much. I just want to work and keep quiet. That's all I've got in mind. Sherwood Anderson caremindwant When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off. Sherwood Anderson doneusejobs Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough. Sherwood Anderson acceptanceselfthinking 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. Sherwood Anderson windlongpeople There is a note that comes into the human voice by which you may know real weariness. It comes when one has been trying with all his heart and soul to think his way along some difficult road of thought. Of a sudden he finds himself unable to go on. Something within him stops. A tiny explosion takes place. He bursts into words and talks, perhaps foolishly. Little side currents of his nature he didn't know were there run out and get themselves expressed. It is at such times that a man boasts, uses big words, makes a fool of himself in general. Sherwood Anderson realheartrunning Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything. Sherwood Anderson drawinghumbletrying Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples. Sherwood Anderson sweetnesstwistedapples All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean. Sherwood Anderson nicemeanchildren 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 need-youpeopleneeds Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately,almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does. Sherwood Anderson talkingartthinking 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. Sherwood Anderson menpeoplethinking
