Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISif men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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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.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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