Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
SINCLAIR LEWISMy objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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