In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
SINCLAIR LEWISOur American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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