So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
SINCLAIR LEWISSo much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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