Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dom...inated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devot...ion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your sins have found you out, and now you must pay the price of all women like you. You have brought a child into this world again...st the commandment. Prayer is wasted on your sort. You should be cast out into the utter darkness 'til you have learned your lesson. Michael Lewis do you admit your sin?... Then prepare to suffer your punishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Auden, MacNeice, Day Lewis, I have read them all, Hoping against hope to hear the authentic call . . .... And know the explanation I must pass is this MYou cannot light a match on a crumbling wall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What does Africa,--what does the West stand for? Is not our own interior white on the chart? black though it may prove, like the c...oast, when discovered. Is it the source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Mississippi, or a Northwest Passage around this continent, that we would find? Are these the problems which most concern mankind? Is Franklin the only man who is lost, that his wife should be so earnest to find him? Does Mr. Grinnell know where he himself is? Be rather the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clark and Frobisher, of your own streams and oceans; explore your own higher latitudes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wilson was a visionary who liked to identify himself with "forward-looking man"; Harding ... was as old-fashioned as those wooden ...Indians which used to stand in front of cigar stores.... Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then--but they were not roses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hell is out of fashion--institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the ...gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull.... A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now we are part of the world, and the world is part of us. If any part suffers, all suffer. If any part loses freedom, all will lo...se it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »