Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
SINCLAIR LEWISIf there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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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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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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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.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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