You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
SINCLAIR LEWISNOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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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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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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