We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriting is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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