A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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