So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
SINCLAIR LEWISSo that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
SINCLAIR LEWISIntellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
SINCLAIR LEWISShe did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
SINCLAIR LEWISEmotionally I know she is better than every other country.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere 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.
SINCLAIR LEWISFine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe 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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
SINCLAIR LEWISGood Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
SINCLAIR LEWISCuriously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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