Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWISThink how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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