Sherwood Anderson Quote

We got up at four in the morning, that first day in the east. On the evening before we had climbed off a freight train at the edge of town, and with the true instinct of Kentucky boys had found our way across town and to the race track and the stables at once. Then we knew we were all right.


"I Want to Know Why" - The Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories (1921)


We got up at four in the morning, that first day in the east. On the evening before we had climbed off a freight train at the edge of town, and with...

We got up at four in the morning, that first day in the east. On the evening before we had climbed off a freight train at the edge of town, and with...

We got up at four in the morning, that first day in the east. On the evening before we had climbed off a freight train at the edge of town, and with...

We got up at four in the morning, that first day in the east. On the evening before we had climbed off a freight train at the edge of town, and with...