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.
SINCLAIR LEWISCuriously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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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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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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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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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