Sinclair Lewis Quotes

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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Audience Author Funnier Largely Lecture Raed See
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Custom Much Think
Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Dictate Method Pen Type Use
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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Gone Maybe Perhaps Propaganda Tax Union
Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Grecian Modern Neither Retain Vestment
And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Fellow Higher might Seem Semon Thing
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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Everything Ridden
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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Dictate Just No Pen Toe Type Use Write Writeing
I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Drink Exactly Now
We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Deferring More Next Perhaps Think

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