It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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