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.
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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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