It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
SINCLAIR LEWISFunny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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 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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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