Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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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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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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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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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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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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