We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
SINCLAIR LEWISI have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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