A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
SINCLAIR LEWISThink of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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