It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
SINCLAIR LEWISEvery man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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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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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 can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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