We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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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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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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I 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.
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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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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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