I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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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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