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.
Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people have probably been seeing time as a straight line that continues on forever. And that's the concept they based their actions on. And until now they haven't found anything inconvenient or contradictory about it. So as an experiential model, it's probably correct.
I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the compass is static. It is fixed and rooted in a certain spot. Meanwhile, the other leg draws a huge wide circle around the first one, constantly moving. Just like that, one part of my writing is based in Istanbul. It has strong local roots. Yet at the same time the other part travels the whole wide world, feeling connected to several cities, cultures, and peoples.
She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.
The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.
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