Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
SINCLAIR LEWISLife is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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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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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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 can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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