The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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