Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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if 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.
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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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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Unhappy 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.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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