It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWISGood Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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