She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
SINCLAIR LEWISI’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is 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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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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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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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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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