Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
SINCLAIR LEWISFunny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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