Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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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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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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