So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
SINCLAIR LEWISAdvertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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