Sinclair Lewis Quotes

Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.

SINCLAIR LEWIS

Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Method Other Take Themselves Write Writer
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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Attic Booze Businessmen Feeding Indistinguishable Left Other Shabby Spaghetti Successful
You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.

SINCLAIR LEWIS

You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Idda Liberal Middle Said Sighest
It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

SINCLAIR LEWIS

It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Fix
God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.

SINCLAIR LEWIS

God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Around Creep Much never
I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!

SINCLAIR LEWIS

I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Brought Christianity Compromise Creator Merciless Whole
It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.

SINCLAIR LEWIS

It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Dam Discourage Go Real Say Writer
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Become Compulsion Every Polite Sterile Upon Writer
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!

SINCLAIR LEWIS

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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Evening Firmannent Illuminate Make Marvelous Refulgence Uplift
There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Assertion Being Imperlinent

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