It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
SINCLAIR LEWISWriters have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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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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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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