Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
SINCLAIR LEWISI think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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