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 LEWISI 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
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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