Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
SINCLAIR LEWISThat nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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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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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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