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 is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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