The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
SINCLAIR LEWISMost of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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