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.
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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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