Sinclair Lewis Quotes

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• We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
• 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…
• The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played…
• She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
• Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
• 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…
• 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…
• Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
• 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…
• Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
• You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
• It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
• It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
• He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
• She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
• 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…
• Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
• There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
• When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
• When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.

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