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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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