It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
SINCLAIR LEWISExcept for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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