It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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