Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
SINCLAIR LEWISExcept for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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