Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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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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