Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
SINCLAIR LEWISTo live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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Good 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.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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