Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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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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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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