Quotes
Authors
Sinclair Lewis

"I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! 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 â€” and we're going to try our hands at it."

Source : Sinclair Lewis (1924). “Main Street”, p.228, Lulu.com

Sinclair Lewis

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“When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it”
“If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.”
“When the copulative kai [`and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal description, respecting office, dignity, affinity, or connexion, and attributes, properties, or qualities, good or ill], if the article [ho], or any of its cases, precedes the first of the said nouns or participles, and is not repeated before the second noun or participle, the latter always relates to the same person that is expressed or described by the first noun or participle: i.e. it denotes a farther description of the first-named person...”
“Accent your positive and delete your negative.”
“I'm not a negative-minded person. But maybe to keep me humble, I look more at my bad games in big situations than good ones.”
“If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.”
“I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.”
“There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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