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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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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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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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