I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
SINCLAIR LEWISWith your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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