Sherwood Anderson Quotes

“As so often happens in life, he had thought so much and so often of the situation that now confronted him that he was somewhat nervous in its presence.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“If you have your own kind of power, show your hand. Make the man fear you in you own field. For example, you can write. Your rich man cannot do that. It is quite all right to exercise your own power. Have faith in yourself.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“There is no use my not facing everything frankly. By facing everything frankly one gets everything quite cleared up.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“Already there was a contest, always kept under the surface, between the father and son. It concerned ways of doing things, decisions to be made. As yet, the son always surrendered.

It is like that in a family, little isolated groups formed within the larger group, jealousies, concealed hatreds, silent battles secretly going on…”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“People in your own family are likely at any moment to do strange, sometimes hurtful things to you. You have to watch them.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“The problem is never to find and know a little the people whose stories are interesting. There are too many stories. The great difficulty is to tell the stories.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“Be careful. Don't get too close to the truth when talking with the rich,' I was whispering to myself.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“Such men as we are cannot fool with delicate stuff.

Some men are meant to command and other must obey.

There is a kind of death.

Sometimes you much die before you can possess and command.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“It take time to understand things that happen in life. Life unfolds slowly in the mind.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“Possessions mean power, the right to say, 'Do this' or 'Do that.' If you struggle long and hard for a thing it becomes infinitely sweet to you.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“There was something, a driving destructive thing in life, in all relationships between people.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“Something seemed to open out. There was a little inner world created, always, every day, being re-created, and in it there was a kind of new security.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“After all, we do seem attached to sin and there are so many people busy making sin unattractive. It is good to find someone who takes the other road.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“It is strange being at home I grow dull to little things.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“Being alone doesn't mean being where there are no people. It means being where people are all strangers to you.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“But people who believe in themselves make others believe.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“Alice used to say the whole problem of life lay in getting past what she called the "times between.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“One took slippery elm and let it lie in milk until it became soft. This applied to the burns enabled to sleep better at night.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories

“In the lives of working people the dramatic and vita moments of death and birth are passed over in silence.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories