He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
SINCLAIR LEWISSure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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A 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.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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