You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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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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