The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
SINCLAIR LEWISI can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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