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 LEWISWe’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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