Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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