It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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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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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, it’s an occupation.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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