To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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