Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Sinclair Lewis Quotes Click here for Sinclair Lewis books Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street "Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country." "Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize." "Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed are the final quarter keep you alive." "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." "Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue." "Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless." "Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead." "The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century." |
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