In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou have more people that love you than you know.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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