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.
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 world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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