The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
SINCLAIR LEWISTo live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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 am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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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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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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