Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWISHis name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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