Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhy is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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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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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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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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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.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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