To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhat are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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 love America, but I don’t like it.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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