Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
SINCLAIR LEWISLove is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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