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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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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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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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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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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