There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
SINCLAIR LEWISPeople will buy anything that is one to a customer.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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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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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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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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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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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.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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