There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
SINCLAIR LEWISSince dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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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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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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