Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
SINCLAIR LEWISPugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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 compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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