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.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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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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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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