His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
SINCLAIR LEWISOur American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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