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.
SINCLAIR LEWISI think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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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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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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