I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen 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!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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