Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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