One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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The 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.
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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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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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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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