The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt 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.
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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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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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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 are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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