Sinclair Lewis Quotes

• A man takes a drink, a drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

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• It Can’t Happen Here.

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• Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

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• Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

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• In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man.

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• To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his pirate ship but the car his perilous excursion ashore.

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• His name was George F. Babbitt. He was forty-six years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

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• He never put on BVDs without thanking the God of Progress that he didn’t wear tight, long, old-fashioned undergarments.

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• It is impossible to discourage real writers, they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.

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  Tags in Impossible, Discourage

• Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

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• can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity.

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• There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

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• If noble death be virtue’s chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom’s crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest.

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  Tags in Death And Dying, Nobility, Honor, Virtue, Fortune

• Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

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•  When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.

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  Tags in Religious Freedom, Patriotism, Freedom

• People will buy anything that is ‘one to a customer.’

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  Tags in Buy, Anything, Will, Customer

• Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

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  Tags in Sage, Poet, May, Whatever, Orator, Say, Still, Old

Sinclair Lewis (17)

Birth:	7th February, 1885
Death:	10th January, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer, Playwriter

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