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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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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