But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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