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.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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