Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
SINCLAIR LEWISParis is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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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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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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