A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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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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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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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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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