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Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Quotes

Total quotes: 5

Sinclair Lewis

Birthname

AKA: Harry Lewis

Birthday: February 7, 1885

Death: January 10, 1951

Educated At: Oberlin College, Yale University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Science Fiction Writer, Diarist, Journalist, Playwright, Novelist

Total quotes: 5

“The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.”

— Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

Tagged: first lines of books

“For many minutes...he lay awake, shivering, reduced to a primitive terror, comprehending that he had won freedom, and wondering what he could do with anything so unknown and so embarrassing as freedom.”

— Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

Tagged: Life

“The effect of his scientific budget planning was that he felt at once triumphantly wealthy and perilously poor.”

— Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

Tagged: Life, Money

“One evening when his wife was away and he had no one to impress...”

— Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

Tagged: Life

“I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life! I don't know's I've accomplished anything except just get along. I figure out I've made about a quarter of an inch out of a possible hundred rods. Well, maybe you'll carry things on further. I don't know. But I do get a kind of sneaking pleasure of the fact that you knew what you wanted to do and did it. Well, those folks in there will try to bully you, and tame you down. Tell 'em to go to the devil. I'll back you. Take your factory job, if you want to. Don't be scared of the family. No, nor all of Zenith. Nor of yourself, the way I've been. Go ahead, old man! The world if yours!”

— Babbit, Babbitt

Tagged: Life

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