In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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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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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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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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