“ The normal man, he does not care much what he does except that he should eat and sleep and make love. ”
Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith (1925). copy citation
| Author | Sinclair Lewis |
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| Source | Arrowsmith |
| Topic | love sleep |
| Date | 1925 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200131h.html |
Context
“"To be a scientist—it is not just a different job, so that a man should choose between being a scientist and being an explorer or a bond-salesman or a physician or a king or a farmer. It is a tangle of ver-y obscure emotions, like mysticism, or wanting to write poetry; it makes its victim all different from the good normal man. The normal man, he does not care much what he does except that he should eat and sleep and make love. But the scientist is intensely religious—he is so religious that he will not accept quarter-truths, because they are an insult to his faith.
"He wants that everything should be subject to inexorable laws.”
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