The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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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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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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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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