"There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. The boy is walking through the st..."
- Sherwood Anderson
"In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this ..."
"People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast."
"To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship."
"Here and there a man respected the operator. Instinctively the man felt in him a glowing resentment of something he had not the courage to resent."
"Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved."
"We poor tellers of tales have our moments too, it seems. Like great generals sitting upon horses upon the tops of hills and throwing troops into the arena, we throw the little soldier words into our b..."
"He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold by the hour, servants, you see, to his fancy. Among these people he was alwa..."
"One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the whole so much more first class than the average man."
"I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think."