It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWISLife is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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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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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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