Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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