if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
SINCLAIR LEWISThat nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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It 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.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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