Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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