Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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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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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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