Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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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It 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.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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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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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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