Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISNOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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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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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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