In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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