Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
SINCLAIR LEWISI must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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