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?
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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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 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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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