Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
SINCLAIR LEWISWhatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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?
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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