You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
SINCLAIR LEWISIf there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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 kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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