The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
Sherwood AndersonI have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.
Sherwood AndersonThe lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.
Sherwood AndersonI had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men....It blew ideas away.
Sherwood AndersonIt may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.
Sherwood AndersonIt might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect
Sherwood AndersonI feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.
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 Anderson