She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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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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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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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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