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Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Book by Sherwood Anderson · 5 quotes · Men, Littles, Mean

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Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout Quotes

“I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.”

“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.”

“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.”