Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
SINCLAIR LEWISSure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Illuminating 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!
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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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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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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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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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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