Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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 might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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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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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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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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