It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
SINCLAIR LEWISCure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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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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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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