His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
SINCLAIR LEWISA sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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