Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
SINCLAIR LEWISWinter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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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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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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