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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
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 Wonderlustprobably 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
