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.”
SINCLAIR LEWISUnder a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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