There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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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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