Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISSo that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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In 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.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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