Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWISI have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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