Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
SINCLAIR LEWISif men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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