Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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