Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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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.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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