Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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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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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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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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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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