Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
SINCLAIR LEWISSo much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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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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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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