Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
SINCLAIR LEWISHe loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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