We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
SINCLAIR LEWISDon’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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