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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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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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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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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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