If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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In 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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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