The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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