Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Sure 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.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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