What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
SINCLAIR LEWISThe most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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