Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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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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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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 fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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