The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
SINCLAIR LEWISI was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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