We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
SINCLAIR LEWISGood Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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