Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
SINCLAIR LEWISPeople will buy anything that is one to a customer.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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