Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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