I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
SINCLAIR LEWISShe did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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Funny 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.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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