You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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