The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
SINCLAIR LEWIS
We’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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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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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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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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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