Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
SINCLAIR LEWIS