NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
SINCLAIR LEWISI’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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