Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
SINCLAIR LEWISIlluminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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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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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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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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