Meandering in the stacks . . .

Today is the birthday of Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941), writer.

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

"Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?" - Sherwood Anderson

"If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?" - Sherwood Anderson

"The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men." - Sherwood Anderson

"I Want to Know Why." - Sherwood Anderson

Trivia bit: Sherwood Anderson died after he accidentally swallowed a piece of a toothpick embedded in a martini olive at a party in Panama. The official cause of death was peritonitis. He was buried at Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia. His epitaph reads, Life, Not Death, is the Great Adventure.

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