The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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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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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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