Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere 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.
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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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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 have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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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