Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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