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.
SINCLAIR LEWISPeople will buy anything that is one to a customer.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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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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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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