Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWISPeople read fiction for emotion-not information
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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The 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.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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