Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead. - Sinclair Lewis
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
- Sinclair Lewis
I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts. - Sinclair Lewis
I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.
Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trou… - Sinclair Lewis
Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trou…
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobey… - Sinclair Lewis
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobey…
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and on… - Sinclair Lewis
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and on…
Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag. - Sinclair Lewis
Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on. - Sinclair Lewis
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
You have more people that love you than you know. - Sinclair Lewis
You have more people that love you than you know.
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...." - Sinclair Lewis
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."
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