She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
SINCLAIR LEWISDon’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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I 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
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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