Most 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.
SINCLAIR LEWISI love America, but I don’t like it.
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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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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.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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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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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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’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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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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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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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