Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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