His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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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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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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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