Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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