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

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Source : Sherwood Anderson (1947). “The Sherwood Anderson reader”

Sherwood Anderson

#Artist Quotes #Imagination Quotes #People Quotes

“The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams.”

Source : Walter Russell Bowie (1931). “On Being Alive”
“I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?”
“People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America...”

Source : Mary Pipher (2003). “The Middle of Everywhere”, p.371, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.”
“I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.”
“I don't even like holding them. Whenever I hold a gun, I want to get it out of my hand as quick as possible.”
“it is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face ...”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.”

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