God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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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