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 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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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