I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
SINCLAIR LEWISFortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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