We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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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 must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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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.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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