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.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe 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.”
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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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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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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