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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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