We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
SINCLAIR LEWISDon’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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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