People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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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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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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