The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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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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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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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.
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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