“Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated 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.” ThinkingWorldHumansDifferencesHuman BeingsPerfectStreetsExampleSourceNewspapersJournalismThoughtfulThinkerArtificialTypicalSuperficialMain Street Author:Gertrude Stein
“The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.” BookRealSometimesFormDifferencesMaterialsTasteIntellectualNewspapersAttractivePoisonDisgusting Book:A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se Source: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se