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.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou have more people that love you than you know.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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I’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.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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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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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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