In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
SINCLAIR LEWISI can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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