The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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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 one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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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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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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