The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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