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.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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.
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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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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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