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.
SINCLAIR LEWISif men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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