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.
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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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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