Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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