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 LEWISCure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Most 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.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Being 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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