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 did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
I think that if it is - has to do with global warming, or if it has to do with raising the minimum wage, or if it has to do with lowering prescription drugs for vulnerable citizens - all of those things are people issues, not Democratic issues or Republican issues.
Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
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