"She did her work with the thoroughness of……" — Sinclair Lewis
"She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them."
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61 Quotes by Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis has 61 quotes on this site.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth…
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's…
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to…
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If…
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest…
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she…
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation…
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the…
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More Details Quotes
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To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
— Giorgio Armani
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I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize…
— Andrea Arnold
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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget…
— Banksy
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I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in…
— Drew Barrymore
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I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
— Victoria Beckham
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
— Annie Besant
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We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a…
— Annie Besant
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What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
— Manolo Blahnik
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color…
— Benjamin Britten
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