NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
SINCLAIR LEWISif men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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