Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
SINCLAIR LEWISI am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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