On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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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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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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