There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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