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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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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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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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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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