Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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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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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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