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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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 want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.
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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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It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
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The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.
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The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.
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Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.
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Virtuality is the cultural perception that material objects are interpenetrated by information patterns. The definition plays off the duality at the heart of the condition of virtuality—materiality on the one hand, information on the other. Normally virtuality is associated with computer simulations that put the body into a feedback loop with a computer-generated image. For example, in virtual Ping-Pong, one swings a paddle wired into a computer, which calculates from the paddle’s momentum and position where the ball would go. Instead of hitting a real ball, the player makes the appropriate motions with the paddle and watches the image of the ball on a computer monitor. Thus the game takes place partly in real life (RL) and partly in virtual reality (VR). Virtual reality technologies are fascinating because they make visually immediate the perception that a world of information exists parallel to the “real” world, the former intersecting the latter at many points and in many ways. Hence the definition’s strategic quality, strategic because it seeks to connect virtual technologies with the sense, pervasive in the late twentieth century, that all material objects are interpenetrated by flows of information, from DNA code to the global reach of the World Wide Web.
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We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
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I don't vote. I voted Labour once, in that moment of euphoria. I know that if people only made a voice for change, then change will happen, but I'm not that person. I'm painting pictures.
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There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information.
