The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
SINCLAIR LEWISNOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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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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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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