I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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