To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
SINCLAIR LEWISLife is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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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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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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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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