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.
SINCLAIR LEWISI’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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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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 is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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