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

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


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I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.



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The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.



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I 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.



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The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.





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