Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISI love America, but I don’t like it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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