Quotes by Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Cooking

Food

Men

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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.

Baseball

Party

Pockets

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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.

Country

Ignorance

Pain

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

Funny

Humor

Money

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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

Men

Principles

Vocabulary

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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.

Democracy

Evil

Giving

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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

Devil

Dresses

May

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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.

He Man

Men

Running

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Do you think it’s so snobbish, to want to see something besides one’s fellow citizens abroad?

Citizens

Thinking

Travel

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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

Scientist

Writing

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