Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
SINCLAIR LEWISSure 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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