Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWISFunny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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