What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
SINCLAIR LEWISVast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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.
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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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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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