So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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!
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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