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.
SINCLAIR LEWISUnhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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