We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
SINCLAIR LEWISDon’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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