Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
SINCLAIR LEWISFine, 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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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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