If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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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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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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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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