We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
SINCLAIR LEWISOne quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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