The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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