Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWISI can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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