The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
SINCLAIR LEWISIlluminating 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!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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