My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
SINCLAIR LEWISMy chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
SINCLAIR LEWISI think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
SINCLAIR LEWISTo 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 LEWISSleep with me sleep with my dogs-
SINCLAIR LEWISPeople read fiction for emotion-not information
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.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWISShe was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
SINCLAIR LEWISBut the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
SINCLAIR LEWISGood Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
SINCLAIR LEWISWith 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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIf there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn 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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIs it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWIS