The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
SINCLAIR LEWISFortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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