I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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 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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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