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 LEWISWinter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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