If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
SINCLAIR LEWISShe did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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