Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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There 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.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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