Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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