if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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