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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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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.
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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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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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