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 LEWISTo 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 LEWISHe loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
SINCLAIR LEWISIndians, 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.
SINCLAIR LEWISVast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
SINCLAIR LEWISSleep with me sleep with my dogs-
SINCLAIR LEWISIf there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
SINCLAIR LEWISIlluminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
SINCLAIR LEWISTo live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
SINCLAIR LEWISA 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.
SINCLAIR LEWISI’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.
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!
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
SINCLAIR LEWISWith 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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