Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWISHis name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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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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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