185 Quotes by Sherwood Anderson

The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.

How dirty she was, how thin, what a wild look she had! I have never seen a wilder-looking creature. Her eyes were bright. They were like the eyes of a wild animal.

The problem is never to find and know a little the people whose stories are interesting. There are too many stories. The great difficulty is to tell the stories. ~264, SA: Sh. Stories, 1962

Alice used to say the whole problem of life lay in getting past what she called the "times between." ~ 150, SA: Sh. Stories, 1962

I had come out of a messy workplace along a messy street to a messy room and did not like it and within me was the beer that made me bold.

There is no use my not facing everything frankly. By facing everything frankly one gets everything quite cleared up. ~ 134, SA: Sh. Stories, 1962

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.

Here and there a man respected the operator. Instinctively the man felt in him a glowing resentment of something he had not the courage to resent.