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.
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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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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