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 LEWISThink of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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