Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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