Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
SINCLAIR LEWISIt isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Damn 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.
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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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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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