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 LEWISWhatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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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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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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