We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
SINCLAIR LEWISI am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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