Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISMost 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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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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