Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
SINCLAIR LEWISIlluminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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 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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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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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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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