Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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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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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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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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