A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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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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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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