"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."

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My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly a house-and-barn painter. However, he did not call himself a house-painter. The idea was not flashy enough for him. He called himself a "sign-writer.

— Sherwood Anderson