There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
SINCLAIR LEWISVast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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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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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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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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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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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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