You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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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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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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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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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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