Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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 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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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.
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