Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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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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