Sinclair Lewis Quotes

It Can’t Happen Here.

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

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

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 business man.

To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his pirate ship but the car his perilous excursion ashore.