Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
SINCLAIR LEWISFunny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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