And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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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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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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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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