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.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

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.

It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.