There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
SINCLAIR LEWISIf travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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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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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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