Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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If 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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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