185 Quotes by Sherwood Anderson

But people who believe in themselves make others believe. ~ 153, SA: Sh. Stories, 1962

It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared. Now it's time to be living. I don't want to frighten you, but I would like to make you understand the import of what you think of attempting. You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.

There was something, a driving destructive thing in life, in all relationships between people. ~188, SA: Sh. Stories, 1962

One took slippery elm and let it lie in milk until it became soft. This applied to the burns enabled to sleep better at night. ~110, SA: Sh. Stories, 1962

On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

Io sono uno che ama e non ho trovato la cosa da amare.

Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.

Ownership that gave curious rights, dominances—fathers over children, men and women over lands, houses, factories in cities, fields.

Possessions mean power, the right to say, 'Do this' or 'Do that.' If you struggle long and hard for a thing it becomes infinitely sweet to you. ~ 189, SA: Sh. Stories, 1962