Source: The Egg and Other Stories
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Famous Sherwood Anderson Quotes
Source: Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)
Source: Mid-American Chants
Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader
“Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.”
Source: Winesburg, Ohio
“People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.”
Source: Winesburg, Ohio
Source: Winesburg, Ohio
Source: The Egg and Other Stories
“Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.”
Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader
“The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.”
Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout
“Friends you have, people you love, die and are born again.”
Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader
“Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.”
Source: Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)
“If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.”
Source: A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue
Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout