Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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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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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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I’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.
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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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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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