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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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