Sinclair Lewis (Harry Sinclair Lewis) Quotes
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
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It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
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It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
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I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.
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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
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If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
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CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I are clear: CNN will remain completely independent from an editorial perspective.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls...I want to live, Marge! Won't you let me live?
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In America, the land of the permanent revolution, ulcers and cancer often become, for the men at the top, the contemporary equivalent of the guillotine.
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Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
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We're not all perfect. People always say to me: "Oh you seem happy all the time." But I'm not happy all the time. I'm a human being. I'm very sensitive. I hurt like anybody else. But I do try my best to have a good attitude and I set about tryin' to take care of myself knowing I'm not going to be exactly right, so I just try to see what I can do to improve every single day.
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When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.
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Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
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I must be the oldest living child soprano.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information.
