Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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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.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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