Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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