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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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