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American novelist known for his profound insights into the lives of the American middle class. Anderson's works often focus on the inner world and social status of ordinary people, and his style is concise and direct, which has had a profound impact on American literature.

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Famous Sherwood Anderson Quotes

“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.”

World Mean Ends Next Difficult Differences Achieve Building Taste Occupation Good Taste Building Up

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

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

“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.”

People Thinking World Giving Self Sometimes Enough Acceptance Hunger Affection Strongest Self Acceptance

Book:The Sherwood Anderson reader

Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader

“I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men....It blew ideas away.”

Men World Ideas War Body

Author:Sherwood Anderson

“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.”

Thinking Knows World Doe Art Matter Artist Rooms Talking Known Earnest World History

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy.”

Ifs Men World Firsts Looks Boys Seeing Doors Sadness Figures First Time Nothingness Torn Imaginative Sophistication Procession

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“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.”

People Men World Made Moments Young Falsehood Vague Grotesque Composites

Author:Sherwood Anderson

“Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.”

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio