Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWISVast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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