You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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