In the main street of Winesburg crowds filled the stores and sidewalks. Night came on, horses whinnied, the clerks in stores ran madly about, children became lost and cried lustily, an American town worked terribly at the task of amusing itself.

There is no use my not facing everything frankly. By facing everything frankly one gets everything quite cleared up.

Such men as we are cannot fool with delicate stuff.

Some men are meant to command and other must obey.

There is a kind of death.

Sometimes you much die before you can possess and command.