Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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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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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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