Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWISIf there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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