There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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 man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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