To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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The 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.
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