There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
SINCLAIR LEWISFascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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