When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
SINCLAIR LEWISI love America, but I don’t like it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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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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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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