Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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