Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
SINCLAIR LEWISI think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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