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

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


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There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.



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

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.



It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.



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