Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWISLife is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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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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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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