The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
SINCLAIR LEWISVast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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