Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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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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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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