To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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