To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISHis name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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