In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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I 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.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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To 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.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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