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.
SINCLAIR LEWISPeople will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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