You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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