Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
SINCLAIR LEWISMen die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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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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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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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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