With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
SINCLAIR LEWISIf there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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