I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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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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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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