Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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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.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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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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