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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIs it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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