Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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