When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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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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.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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