We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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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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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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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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