Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
SINCLAIR LEWISTo 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.
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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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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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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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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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