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 LEWISMy chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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