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.
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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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