Poor White Quotes

“All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men die in silence and unnoticed behind the walls. Now and then a man, cut off from his fellows by the peculiarities of his nature, becomes absorbed in doing something that is personal, useful and beautiful. Word of his activities is carried over the walls.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Poor White

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

“Robert Ingersoll came to [a small Midwest town] to speak . . . , and after he had gone the question of the divinity of Christ for months occupied the minds of the citizens.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Poor White

“Hugh McVey was born in a little hole of a town stuck on a mud bank on the western shore of the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. It was a miserable place in which to be born.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Poor White