Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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 so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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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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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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