Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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