We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Fine, 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.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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