We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
SINCLAIR LEWISWhat is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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