One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
SINCLAIR LEWIS
Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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 compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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