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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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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