What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
SINCLAIR LEWISThere 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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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 have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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