If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
SINCLAIR LEWISVast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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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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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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.
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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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