Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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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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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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 impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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