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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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A 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.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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