Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
SINCLAIR LEWISI must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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