It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
SINCLAIR LEWISThink of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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