35 ordspråk av Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis föddes den 7 februari 1885 och dog den 10 januari 1951 - US writer
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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.

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

Det finns två sorters förolämpningar ingen människa kan stå ut med: att han inte har någon humor, samt att han aldrig har sett trubbel.

Insults

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

Insults

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

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.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation

. . . she did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them . . .

a dictator with something of the earthy American sense of humor of a Mark Twain, a George Ade, a Will Rogers, an Artemus Ward.

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

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

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

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, ''The trouble with this country is...''

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

Religion

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