It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
SINCLAIR LEWISPeople will buy anything that is one to a customer.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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