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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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 world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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