The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
-
-
You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
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.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
SINCLAIR LEWIS -
Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
SINCLAIR LEWIS