It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
SINCLAIR LEWIS- Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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.”
SINCLAIR LEWISThe 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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou have more people that love you than you know.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
SINCLAIR LEWISI have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen 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’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
SINCLAIR LEWISWhat are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
SINCLAIR LEWISHe loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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