In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
SINCLAIR LEWISI 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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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.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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