Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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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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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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