I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
SINCLAIR LEWISIn everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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