Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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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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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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