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.
SINCLAIR LEWISCuriously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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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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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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 think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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