Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
SINCLAIR LEWISIn protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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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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