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.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriting 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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