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.”
SINCLAIR LEWISA village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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