Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
SINCLAIR LEWISDon’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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