Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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I 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.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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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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