I love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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