In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
SINCLAIR LEWISSure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
SINCLAIR LEWISFascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISA man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
SINCLAIR LEWISCure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
SINCLAIR LEWISNOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
SINCLAIR LEWISOn the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
SINCLAIR LEWISShe was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
SINCLAIR LEWISMost of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
SINCLAIR LEWISOur American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn 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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
SINCLAIR LEWISAnd 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.
SINCLAIR LEWISBeing 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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