Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe 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.
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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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