To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
SINCLAIR LEWISA 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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