Sherwood Anderson - The Triumph of the Egg (1921)

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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.

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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.

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People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

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