I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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