If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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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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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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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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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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