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Sherwood Anderson Quote: “Those of my critics who declare I have no feeling for form will be filled with delight over the meandering formlessness of these notes.”

101. “Those of my critics who declare I have no feeling for form will be filled with delight over the meandering formlessness of these notes.”

— Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson Quote: “I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people.”

102. “I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people.”

— Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson Quote: “The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.”

103. “The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.”

— Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson Quote: “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.”

104. “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

Sherwood Anderson Quote: “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 of one present-day American. It is likely that I have not, and will not, put into them one truth, measuring by the ordinary standards of truth. It is my aim to be true to the essence of things. That’s what I’m after.”

105. “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 of one present-day American. It is likely that I have not, and will not, put into them one truth, measuring by the ordinary standards of truth. It is my aim to be true to the essence of things. That’s what I’m after.”

— Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson Quote: “I was born fussy, liked cleanness and orderliness about me and had already been thrown too much into the midst of shiftlessness. The socialists and communists I had seen and heard talk nearly all struck me as men who had no sense of life at all.”

106. “I was born fussy, liked cleanness and orderliness about me and had already been thrown too much into the midst of shiftlessness. The socialists and communists I had seen and heard talk nearly all struck me as men who had no sense of life at all.”

— Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson Quote: “Doctor Parcival began to plead with George Willard. ‘You must pay attention to me,’ he urged. ‘If something happens you will be able to write the book that I may never get written. The idea is very simple, so simple that if you are not careful you will forget it. It is this – that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That’s what I want to say. Don’t you forget that. Whatever happens, don’t you dare let yourself forget that.”

107. “Doctor Parcival began to plead with George Willard. ‘You must pay attention to me,’ he urged. ‘If something happens you will be able to write the book that I may never get written. The idea is very simple, so simple that if you are not careful you will forget it. It is this – that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That’s what I want to say. Don’t you forget that. Whatever happens, don’t you dare let yourself forget that.”

— Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson Quote: “As so often happens in life, he had thought so much and so often of the situation that now confronted him that he was somewhat nervous in its presence.”

108. “As so often happens in life, he had thought so much and so often of the situation that now confronted him that he was somewhat nervous in its presence.”

— Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson Quote: “There is no use my not facing everything frankly. By facing everything frankly one gets everything quite cleared up.”

109. “There is no use my not facing everything frankly. By facing everything frankly one gets everything quite cleared up.”

— Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson Quote: “If you have your own kind of power, show your hand. Make the man fear you in you own field. For example, you can write. Your rich man cannot do that. It is quite all right to exercise your own power. Have faith in yourself.”

110. “If you have your own kind of power, show your hand. Make the man fear you in you own field. For example, you can write. Your rich man cannot do that. It is quite all right to exercise your own power. Have faith in yourself.”

— Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson Quote: “The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.”

111. “The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.”

— Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson Quote: “Louise was from childhood a neurotic, one of the race of over-sensitive women that in later days industrialism was to bring in such great numbers into the world.”

112. “Louise was from childhood a neurotic, one of the race of over-sensitive women that in later days industrialism was to bring in such great numbers into the world.”

— Sherwood Anderson

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