The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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