Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWISWith 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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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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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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