Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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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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