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.
SINCLAIR LEWISWe have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Funny 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.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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