To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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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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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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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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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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