Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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