The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Is 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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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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