I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
SINCLAIR LEWISDon’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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