She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Funny 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.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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