As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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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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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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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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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 world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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