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.
SINCLAIR LEWISOne quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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