As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhat is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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