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.
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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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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