You have more people that love you than you know.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt 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.
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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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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 man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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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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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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