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.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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