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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. — Sinclair Lewis

Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful? — Sinclair Lewis

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love. — Sinclair Lewis

I wrote 'It Can't Happen Here,' but I began to think it certainly can. — Sinclair Lewis

Except, perhaps, that he was an atheist in theology, he was a strict orthodox Christian. — Sinclair Lewis

Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds. — Sinclair Lewis

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. — Sinclair Lewis

his secretary-press-agent-private-philosopher, Lee Sarason, yielded nothing to others'. — Sinclair Lewis

She bought a budget-plan account book and made her budgets as exact as budgets are likely to be when they lack budgets. — Sinclair Lewis

He said brokenly many things beautiful in their common-ness. — Sinclair Lewis

Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry. — Sinclair Lewis

He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason — Sinclair Lewis

I wouldn't care whether it was a laboratory or a carnival. But it's merely safe. Tell me, Mr. Pollock, what is the matter with Gopher Prairie? — Sinclair Lewis

Life is comfortable and clean enough here already. And so secure. What it needs it to be less secure, more eager. — Sinclair Lewis

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years? — Sinclair Lewis

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is ... " — Sinclair Lewis

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. — Sinclair Lewis

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them. — Sinclair Lewis

The Wonderlust
probably it's a worse affliction than the Wanderlust. — Sinclair Lewis

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 ... — Sinclair Lewis

She found beauty in the children. — Sinclair Lewis

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends. — Sinclair Lewis

cigar, and walked up and down before the house, a portly, — Sinclair Lewis

Your lips are for songs about rivers in the morning and lakes at twilight. — Sinclair Lewis

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had. — Sinclair Lewis

If that woman is on the side of the angels, then I have no choice; I must be on the side of the devil. — Sinclair Lewis

She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull, — Sinclair Lewis

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century. — Sinclair Lewis

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. — Sinclair Lewis

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. — Sinclair Lewis

What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well? — Sinclair Lewis

A country that tolerates evil means- evil manners, standards of ethics-for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end. — Sinclair Lewis

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living. — Sinclair Lewis

We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all. — Sinclair Lewis

government of the profits, by the profits, for the profits. — Sinclair Lewis

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. — Sinclair Lewis

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad? — Sinclair Lewis

I love America, but I don't like it. — Sinclair Lewis

His name was George F. Babbitt, and ... he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. — Sinclair Lewis

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. — Sinclair Lewis

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it. — Sinclair Lewis

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class. — Sinclair Lewis

Sleep with me sleep with my dogs- — Sinclair Lewis

I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies — Sinclair Lewis

Remember our war hysteria, when we called sauerkraut 'Liberty cabbage' and somebody actually proposed calling German measles 'Liberty measles'? — Sinclair Lewis

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead. — Sinclair Lewis

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. — Sinclair Lewis

I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence. — Sinclair Lewis

in a world of groceries and sermons — Sinclair Lewis

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service. — Sinclair Lewis

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously. — Sinclair Lewis

People read fiction for emotion-not information — Sinclair Lewis

So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting. — Sinclair Lewis

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath. — Sinclair Lewis

Well, if that's what you call being at peace, for heaven's sake just warn me before you go to war, will you? — Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion. — Jane Smiley

Whatever she might become she would never be static. — Sinclair Lewis

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. — Sinclair Lewis

HIS march to greatness was not without disastrous stumbling. — Sinclair Lewis

Street, and she was able to give Elmer the three hundred — Sinclair Lewis

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on. — Sinclair Lewis

There is no Solution! There will never be a state of society anything like perfect! — Sinclair Lewis

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. — Sinclair Lewis

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. — Sinclair Lewis

There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it. — Sinclair Lewis

He believed that the earth is flat, that the English are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and that the United States is a democracy. — Sinclair Lewis

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment. — Sinclair Lewis

We don't want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. — Sinclair Lewis

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments. — Sinclair Lewis

Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer. — Sinclair Lewis

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose. — Sinclair Lewis

Why, America's the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country's too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn't happen here! — Sinclair Lewis

Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to forget all this race-hysteria. — Sinclair Lewis

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts. — Sinclair Lewis

Say, I swear the best Messiah in the whole show is this darky, Father Divine. — Sinclair Lewis

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism — Sinclair Lewis

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street. — Sinclair Lewis

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men. — Sinclair Lewis

The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty. — Sinclair Lewis

freedom of speech becomes mere license when it goes so far as to criticize the Army, differ with the D.A.R., and advocate the rights of the Mob. — Sinclair Lewis

Of the love-making of Carol and Will Kennicott there is nothing to be told which may not be heard on every summer evening, on every shadowy block. — Sinclair Lewis

It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind. — Sinclair Lewis

And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology. — Sinclair Lewis

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. — Sinclair Lewis

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. — Sinclair Lewis

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human being. — Sinclair Lewis

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. — Sinclair Lewis

On the walk, like shredded lovely flesh, were the petals of the last gallant rose. — Sinclair Lewis

Flight from familiar tedium to new tedium would have for a time the outer look and promise of adventure. — Sinclair Lewis

Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag, — Sinclair Lewis

a huddle of robot sheep bleating their terror with mechanical lungs of a hundred horsepower. — Sinclair Lewis

If you want to be a writer, learn to type. — Sinclair Lewis

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 Lewis

The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it! — Sinclair Lewis

To the connoisseur of scenes, nothing is more enjoyable than a thorough, melodramatic, egoistic humility. — Sinclair Lewis

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged. — Sinclair Lewis

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. — Sinclair Lewis

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd. — Sinclair Lewis

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.' — Sinclair Lewis

Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself. — Sinclair Lewis