Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
SINCLAIR LEWISIf travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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I 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
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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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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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