The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
SINCLAIR LEWISif 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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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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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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