What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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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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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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