Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
SINCLAIR LEWISHe loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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 must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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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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