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!
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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