Sherwood Anderson Quotes

"Onun karısıyım ve onun karısı olarak kalacağım" diye fısıldıyordu ve kendi kendine geçindirmeye yönelik tüm istekliliğine rağmen gittikçe yaygınlaşan, kadınların kendi kendine sahip olma ve kendi çıkarlarına gözetmeye yönelik modern fikirleri bir türlü anlayamıyordu.

I have come to this lonely place, and here is this other.

Uzun süredir âşık olduğu kadını elde edemeyen biri gibi yorgundu.

You can't always be too fussy about what you say to a young boy. Really, sometimes, you should take him into your confidence, into your life, make him a part of your life.

The devil — one might face anything if one but knew what was to be faced! ~117, SA: Sh. Stories, 1962

An American town worked terribly at the task of amusing itself.

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.

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life

... In the end he wrote a book which he called “The Book of the Grotesque.” It was never published, but I saw it once and it made an indelible impression on my mind. The book had one central thought that is very strange and has always remained with me. By remembering it I have been able to understand many people and things that I was never able to understand before. The thought was involved but a simple statement of it would be something like this:

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were the truths and they were all beautiful.

The old man had listed hundreds of the truths in his book. I will not try to tell you of all of them. There was the truth of virginity and the truth of passion, the truth of wealth and of poverty, of thrift and of profligacy, of carelessness and abandon. Hundreds and hundreds were the truths and they were all beautiful.

And then the people came along. Each as he appeared snatched up one of the truths and some who were quite strong snatched up a dozen of them.

It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The old man had quite an elaborate theory concerning the matter. It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.

You can see for yourself how the old man, who had spent all of his life writing and was filled with words, would write hundreds of pages concerning this matter. The subject would become so big in his mind that he himself would be in danger of becoming a grotesque. He didn’t, I suppose, for the same reason that he never published the book. It was the young thing inside him that saved the old man.

Vatanperverlikle alakası olmayan savaşların yapılacağı, insanların Tanrı'yı unutup sadece ahlaki değerlere dikkat edeceği, iktidar isteğinin hizmet isteğinin yerine geçeceği ve insanoğlunun pervasızca servet edinme telaşının güzelliği neredeyse unutturacağı, dünya tarihindeki bu en maddiyatçı çağın başlangıcının hikâyesi Tanrı'nın kulu Jesse'yi de, tıpkı etrafındaki diğerleri gibi etkisi altına alıyordu.

ადამიანთა ცხოვრება ტყეში ახალგაზრდა ხეებივითაა. მათ ახრჩობთ მხვიარა ვაზები. მხვიარები ძველი აზრები და რწმენებია, მკვდართა მიერ დარგული

I am becoming old and queer.