We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
SINCLAIR LEWISIntellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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