The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
SINCLAIR LEWISThus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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.
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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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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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