Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives. - Sherwood Anderson

People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.

I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it.

The young man’s mind was carried away by his growing passion for dreams. One looking at him would not have thought him particularly sharp. With the recollection of little things occupying his mind he closed his eyes and leaned back in the car seat. He stayed that way for a long time and when he aroused himself and again looked out of the car window the town of Winesburg had disappeared and his life there had become but a background on which to paint the dreams of his manhood.