Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
SINCLAIR LEWISSince dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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