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.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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