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.
SINCLAIR LEWISOne quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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