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.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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