It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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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.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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