The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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