Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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 trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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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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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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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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