In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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