As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
SINCLAIR LEWISI love America, but I don’t like it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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