Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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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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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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