Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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