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.
SINCLAIR LEWISPeople read fiction for emotion-not information
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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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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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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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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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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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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