Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
SINCLAIR LEWISI love America, but I don’t like it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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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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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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