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.
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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Good 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.
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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The 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.”
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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