His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
SINCLAIR LEWISPugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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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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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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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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