One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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