God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
SINCLAIR LEWISIf travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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