We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
SINCLAIR LEWISSo that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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