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.
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 is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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