I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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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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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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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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