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!
SINCLAIR LEWISA man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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