Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhat is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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There 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.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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