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?
SINCLAIR LEWISA 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.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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