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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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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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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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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