She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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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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