It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
SINCLAIR LEWISBeing a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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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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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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