The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
SINCLAIR LEWISShe was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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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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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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