Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriting is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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