One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
SINCLAIR LEWISHis name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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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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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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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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