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.
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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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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