Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
SINCLAIR LEWISEmotionally I know she is better than every other country.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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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.
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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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