As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod.
Sherwood AndersonThe disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.
Sherwood AndersonI go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
Sherwood AndersonIt may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
Sherwood Anderson