Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that winter is more than just a time of year; it embodies a way of life or mindset.
Sinclair Lewis's quote, 'Winter is not a season, it's an occupation,' emphasizes the idea that the challenges and experiences of winter can deeply influence our attitudes and behaviors. It implies that one must actively engage with and adapt to the difficulties of life, much like approaching a job with a particular mindset, thus framing winter as a metaphor for broader life struggles and responsibilities.
In practice
A motivational speech on embracing life's hardships during a winter retreat.
Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.
These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity. These amenities have dignified the right of dissent and have honored the right to be nonconformists and the right to defy submissiveness. They have encouraged lives of high spirits rather than hushed, suffocating silence.
Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.
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