With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
SINCLAIR LEWISThere are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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