To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
SINCLAIR LEWISIndians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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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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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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To 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.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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