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 is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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 compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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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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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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