Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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