Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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.
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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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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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