The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
SINCLAIR LEWISUnhappy 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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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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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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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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if 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.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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