If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
SINCLAIR LEWISTo be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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 with your toes-it is just work.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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