It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
SINCLAIR LEWISExcept for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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