NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriting 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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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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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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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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