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!
SINCLAIR LEWISDon’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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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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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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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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