On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
SINCLAIR LEWISI love America, but I don’t like it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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