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.
SINCLAIR LEWISI have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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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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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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