The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
SINCLAIR LEWISSince dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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