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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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