It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
SINCLAIR LEWISHis name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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