Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
SINCLAIR LEWISFortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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 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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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