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“The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Poor White

“On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

“I’ll be washed and ironed. I’ll be washed and ironed and starched.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.”
― Sherwood Anderson