A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
SINCLAIR LEWISUnhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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 businessman.
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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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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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