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 LEWISVast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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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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