Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISAs ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain 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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