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> [I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/i-think-perhaps-we-want-a-more-conscious-life-we-re-tired-of-drudging/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

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## More by Sinclair Lewis

> [“She found beauty in the children.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/she-found-beauty-in-the-children/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/what-is-love-listen-it-is-the-rainbow-that-stands-out-in-all-its/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/when-you-think-that-most-of-us-are-doomed-by-divine-grace-to-roast-in/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/he-loved-the-people-just-as-much-as-he-feared-and-detested-persons/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“He had expected that traditionally Republican Vermont would give him too drearily easy a task in preaching Trowbridge. What he found was a dismaying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/he-had-expected-that-traditionally-republican-vermont-would-give-him/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/day-on-day-he-waited-so-much-of-a-revolution-for-so-many-people-is/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“She continued it to Hugh, 'Darling, do you know what mother and you are going to find beyond the blue horizon rim?' 'What?' flatly.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/she-continued-it-to-hugh-darling-do-you-know-what-mother-and-you-are/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/is-it-possible-that-nobody-has-ever-known-that-there-never-has-been-a/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“I think perhaps we want a more conscientious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of always deferring hope to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/i-think-perhaps-we-want-a-more-conscientious-life-we-re-tired-of/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/it-might-be-the-doing-of-satan-in-whom-aaron-anxiously-believed-with/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/the-author-says-one-character-s-definition-of-a-classic-is-any-book/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/like-all-males-he-hated-to-confess-ignorance-by-asking-directions/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/winter-is-not-a-season-it-s-an-occupation/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“Author sees the "congested idealism" of the generally discontent as reservoir that will support centralized power even while disagreeing with many specific provisions.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/author-sees-the-congested-idealism-of-the-generally-discontent-as/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

> [“The poor we have always with us, and the purpose of the Lord in providing the poor is to enable us of the better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/the-poor-we-have-always-with-us-and-the-purpose-of-the-lord-in/)

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