“I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.”
Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
George Bernard Shaw on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize (1930)
“I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.”
New York Times (19 December 1930) remarks on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize
1930s
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“Idiots are really
one hundred per cent
when they are also
intelligent.”
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