You have more people that love you than you know.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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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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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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