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.
SINCLAIR LEWISThink how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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