Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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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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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.”
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