Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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
-
-
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
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!
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
I love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
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 LEWIS -
What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS






