Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
SINCLAIR LEWISShe did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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