We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhat are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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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.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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