What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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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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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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