Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
SINCLAIR LEWISI can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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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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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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