Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
SINCLAIR LEWISDamn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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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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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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