The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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