In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
SINCLAIR LEWISMy objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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’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.
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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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