Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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