To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriting 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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