To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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