Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
SINCLAIR LEWISPugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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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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’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.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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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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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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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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