if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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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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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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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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