One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
SINCLAIR LEWISIf there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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.
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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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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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