In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
SINCLAIR LEWISOn the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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