The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
SINCLAIR LEWISSince dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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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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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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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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