I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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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.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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