It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWISA man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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