God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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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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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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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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