Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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