If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
SINCLAIR LEWISHe loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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