We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
SINCLAIR LEWIS
I 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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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