In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
SINCLAIR LEWISIf there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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