Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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