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.
SINCLAIR LEWISVast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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