People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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With 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.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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