On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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