{"author":"Sherwood Anderson","author_id":"Sherwood+Anderson","total_quotes":40,"quotes":[{"text":"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 always self-confident and bold. They might talk, to be sure, and even have opinions of their own, but always he talked last and best. He was like a writer busy among the figures of his brain, a kind of tiny blue-eyed king he was, in a six-dollar room facing Washington Square in the city of New York.","author":"Sherwood Anderson","tags":["imagination","kingdom","servants"],"id":2411,"author_id":"Sherwood+Anderson"},{"text":"Questions invaded my mind and I was young and skeptical, wanting to believe in the power of the mind, wanting to believe in the power of intellectual force, terribly afraid of sentimentality in myself and others.","author":"Sherwood Anderson","tags":["power-of-the-mind","skepticism","youth"],"id":22602,"author_id":"Sherwood+Anderson"},{"text":"I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.","author":"Sherwood Anderson","tags":["life","travel"],"id":29686,"author_id":"Sherwood+Anderson"},{"text":"The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.","author":"Sherwood Anderson","tags":["machines","modernity","nostalgia"],"id":36603,"author_id":"Sherwood+Anderson"},{"text":"You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.","author":"Sherwood Anderson","tags":["dreamers","dreaming"],"id":53702,"author_id":"Sherwood+Anderson"},{"text":"Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.","author":"Sherwood Anderson","tags":["present"],"id":56770,"author_id":"Sherwood+Anderson"},{"text":"But these notes make no pretense of being a record of fact. That isn't their object. They are merely notes of impressions, a record of vagrant thoughts, hopes, ideas that have floated through the mind of one present-day American. It is likely that I have not, and will not, put into them one truth, measuring by the ordinary standards of truth. It is my aim to be true to the essence of things. That's what I'm after.","author":"Sherwood Anderson","tags":["facts","truth"],"id":72787,"author_id":"Sherwood+Anderson"},{"text":"Dreams then were to be expressed in building railroads and factories, in boring gas wells, stringing telegraph poles. There was room for no other dream and since father could not do any of these things he was an outlaw in his community. The community tolerated him. His own sons tolerated him.","author":"Sherwood Anderson","tags":["dreams","father","modern-america","tolerance"],"id":124543,"author_id":"Sherwood+Anderson"},{"text":"Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.","author":"Sherwood Anderson","tags":["waiting"],"id":134424,"author_id":"Sherwood+Anderson"},{"text":"General Grant had a simple  childlike recipe for meeting life ... 'I am terribly afraid  but the other fellow is afraid  too.'.","author":"Sherwood Anderson","tags":["success","happiness"],"id":136082,"author_id":"Sherwood+Anderson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":40,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}