From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return … - Sherwood Anderson

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Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

Sherwood Anderson

From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room. I am vividly aware of my own life that escaped the winter on the boat. How many such lives I have lived. Then I only made a dollar and a half a day and now I sometimes make more than that in a few minutes. How wonderful to be able to write words. . . . Again I begin the endless game of reconstructing my own life, jerking it out of the shell that dies, striving to breathe into it beauty and meaning. . . . I wonder why my life, why all lives, are not more beautiful.

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