The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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