Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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