The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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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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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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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 who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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