I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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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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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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