"If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me."

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Source : Sherwood Anderson (1924). “A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue”, p.332, University of Michigan Press

Sherwood Anderson

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