What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
SINCLAIR LEWISOur American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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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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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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