It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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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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.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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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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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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