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Sinclair Lewis Inspirational Quotes (51)

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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. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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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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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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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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Indians, of course, have no theology, and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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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.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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