Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
SINCLAIR LEWISSo much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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’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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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