We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
SINCLAIR LEWISOn the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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