Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
SINCLAIR LEWISTo 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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