The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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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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