Winesburg, Ohio Quotes

“I had come to the time in my life when prayer became necessary and so I invented gods and prayed to them,”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

“Günümüzde, kasabasındaki bir dükkânın sobasının yanında dikilen bir çiftçinin zihni başkalarının söylemleriyle dolup taşıyor. Onun zihnini böylesi dolduranlar ise gazeteler ve dergiler. İçinde bir tür güzel, çocuksu masumiyetin de barındığı eski kara cehaletin büyük bir kısmı sonsuza kadar yok oldu.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

“An American town worked terribly at the task of amusing itself.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

“the desire to say words overcame him and he said words without meaning, rolling them over on his tongue and saying them because they were brave words, full of meaning. "death," he muttered, "night, the sea, fear, loveliness.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

“If things went well they went well for Jesse and never for his dependents. Like a thousand other strong men who have come into the world here in America in these later times, Jesse was but half strong. He could master others but he could not master himself.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

“If George Willard were here, he'd have something to say," thought Seth. "George belongs to this town. He'd shout at Turk and Turk would shout at him. They'd both be secretly pleased by what they had said. It's different with me. I don't belong. I'll not make a fuss about it, but I'm going to get out of here.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio