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.
SINCLAIR LEWISShe did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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