You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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So 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!
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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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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’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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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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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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