M. E. W. Sherwood Quotes

Don't pay attention to what anyone is telling you about your personal journey just keep going, because that's what it's all about.

I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.

The last guy tried to get out of me writing him a ticket by saying, 'Kiss me, big boy, kiss me like there's no tomorrow!'...as I recall, I didn't write that ticket.

There's nothing better than a 200 lb snatch, if you know what I mean.

So if you see a star and he needs a little money So come on baby give it to him this isn't funny! Just reach into your pocket, and pull out some change, Come on baby help a star it's not strange!

... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?

... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.

English people ... are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of Australia, and that is all.

Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.

The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.

I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.

all religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I know no more of him; and I believe that all those are liars who pretend to know more than I do.

. . . a dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions.

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.

Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.

A man needs a purpose for real health.

It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

Friends you have, people you love, die and are born again.

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.

You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.

It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.

It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

I 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.

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

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men....It blew ideas away.

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?

...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.

When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.

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

About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.

We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.

Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.

Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.