What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
SINCLAIR LEWISOn the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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