Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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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 protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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