Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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