Sherwood Anderson Quote

It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.


Winesburg, Ohio (1919)


It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to...

It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to...

It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to...

It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to...