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Sinclair Lewis Inspirational Quotes (51)

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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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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.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest it is an industry.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. —chapter 8
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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You, Said Dr. Yavitch, are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want -- and what I want now is a drink.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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