The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
SINCLAIR LEWISI am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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