We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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