The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities. Sherwood Anderson More Quotes by Sherwood Anderson More Quotes From Sherwood Anderson The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self. Sherwood Anderson diseasefightingself It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills. Sherwood Anderson fieldssuntree It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect Sherwood Anderson physiciansnursemight A man needs a purpose for real health. Sherwood Anderson realmenneeds Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present. Sherwood Anderson wantmeanpast The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed. Sherwood Anderson whitemenbook I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men....It blew ideas away. Sherwood Anderson menwarideas Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism? Sherwood Anderson meanrealityart It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog. Sherwood Anderson dogcountrychildren My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly a house-and-barn painter. However, he did not call himself a house-painter. The idea was not flashy enough for him. He called himself a "sign-writer. Sherwood Anderson housefatherideas It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress. Sherwood Anderson applesprogresslong Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings. Sherwood Anderson satisfactiongiving Draw things that have some meaning to you. An apple, what does it mean? The object drawn doesn't matter so much. It's what you feel about it, what it means to you. A masterpiece could be made of a dish of turnips. Sherwood Anderson applesdoemean Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end. Sherwood Anderson building-updifferencesmean 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 we ran rather than loitered. Sherwood Anderson clotheswinterwind Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg. Sherwood Anderson diespeople General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life ... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too. Sherwood Anderson That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. Sherwood Anderson thoughtsmantruthbeautiful
