Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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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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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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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