A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
SINCLAIR LEWISA man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
SINCLAIR LEWISThat nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
SINCLAIR LEWISI can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
SINCLAIR LEWISUnder a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
SINCLAIR LEWISI 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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIlluminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
SINCLAIR LEWISShe was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
SINCLAIR LEWISFine, 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.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
SINCLAIR LEWISIs it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
SINCLAIR LEWISFascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
SINCLAIR LEWISTo a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISif men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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