Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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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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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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