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.
SINCLAIR LEWISA man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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 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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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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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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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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