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.
SINCLAIR LEWISOur American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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