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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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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