Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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